I also want to note for the record, that YOU have never answered MY questions nor have you corrected your numerous errors of fact.
For example, in this message which I am responding to, you accuse me of “being caught writing fiction” because (in your scheme of things) I was supposedly not a teenager at any point in the 1950’s. But as I have pointed out, I was born in April 1945 - so, obviously, I WAS a teenager starting in 1958 (when I was 13 years old).
Your second mistake derived from your poor math skills. Since I mistakenly said I had voted for Presidents JFK and LBJ (which refers to the 1960 and 1964 elections), you concluded (mistakenly) that I could not have been a teenager in the 1960’s. But your assumption is wrong simply because I mistakenly thought I voted by the time I was 18 years old (in 1963).
But again, the critical point here is not the date when I first voted. That is not what started this discussion. What started this discussion was YOUR reliance upon the substantive content of the Metapedia article AND your apparent belief that Metapedia is a reliable source of information about anything they write about.
As I stated previously, nobody from Metapedia contacted me to ask me anything whatsoever. Does THAT seem like the behavior of an “encyclopedia” which is “fact-checked” so that it presents correct information?
And, lastly, the specific date when I first voted is not relevant to anything which has been discussed in this thread. Contrary to your falsehoods, the first posting in this thread referred to Claire Conner’s book which was reviewed in a Tampa FL Bay Times.
Claire’s book is a very detailed autobiographical account of what it was like for her growing up in an authoritarian environment. Claire’s father (Stillwell J. Conner) formed the first JBS chapter in Chicago. He also was a founding member of the JBS and he served on its National Council for many years.
Incidentally, Claire and I have argued publicly about her contention that the Tea Party Movement is virtually identical with the JBS. As I pointed out to Claire, only by using lowest-common-denominator reasoning is such a conclusion possible. When we dumb-down our criteria for making rational (and materially important) distinctions, we leave ourselves open to believing just about anything.
Thanks for the summary. Like most people reading that somebody had voted for Kennedy in 1960 and Johnson in 1964, I figured that you were 21 when you voted for Kennedy. That would of course be the logical conclusion to draw from your writings, since I assumed they were accurate. Now that I have seen that your writings may or may not be accurate, and will shift over time, I now know to not rely on their accuracy, or truthfulness.
” I was born in April 1945 - so, obviously, I WAS a teenager starting in 1958 (when I was 13 years old).”
You say that you voted for both JFK and LBJ-
JFK ran for President in 1960 when you would have been 15.
LBJ ran for President in 1964 when you would have been 19.
But 21 was the legal voting age at the time and you weren’t 21 until 1966.
You aren’t “obviously” the age you’re claiming to be because you would have known the voting age without thinking about it and you would remember who you first voted for for President.